Category: Best of
Best of 2024 – The Hawaii Champion Cowboy
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/12/01Jan25-Best-of-2024-Hawaii-Champion-Cowboy.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The accomplishment was so spectacular it is still remembered over a century later. A cowboy journeyed thousands of miles to…
Best of 2024 – A KISS Homecoming
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/12/31Dec24-Best-of-2024-KISS-Homecoming.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There perhaps has never been a homecoming dance like the 1975 Cadillac, Michigan version. The students and the entire town…
Best of 2024 – The Lancaster Circuses
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/12/30Dec24-Best-of-2024-Lancaster-Circus.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Lancaster, Missouri is not a big town, but in the 1920s, the circuses came to town. And yes, I did…
Best of 2024 – Little America
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/12/27Dec24-Best-of-2024-Little-America.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This place isn’t really a town, yet it has its own zip code. Sometimes it’s a bit of a game…
Best of 2024 – Ismay, Montana
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/12/26Dec24-Best-of-2024-Ismay-Montana.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You’ll need to drive on six miles of gravel roads from the highway to get to the tiny town of…
Best of 2023: The Offer to the Bily Brother
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/12/01Jan23-Best-of-2023-Bily-Brothers.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In 1928 the Bily brothers received quite an offer from Henry Ford. He offered them one million dollars for something…
Best of 2023: North Carolina Nuclear Bomb Farm
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/12/29Dec23-Best-of-23-North-Carolina-Nuclear-Bomb-Farm.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s the Best of 2023 with The American Countryside! Brent Tyndall has people pulling in his driveway just about every…
Best of 2023: The Midwest Dream Car Museum
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/12/28Dec23-Best-of-23-Midwest-Dream-Car-Museum.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s the Best of 2023 with The American Countryside! If you’ve ever seen one of the movies in the Back…
Best of 2023: Cole Younger
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/12/27Dec23-Best-of-23-Cole-Younger.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s the Best of 2023 with The American Countryside! When you hear the name Cole Younger, you probably think of…
Best of 2023: Al’s Oasis
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/12/26Dec23-Best-of-23-Als-Oasis.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s the best of 2023 with a The American Countryside! If you’ve driven across interstate 90 in South Dakota you…
The Best of 2022 – Big Ben the Steer
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/12/30Dec22-Best-of-2022-Ben-the-Steer.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)He is the biggest steer on record – a beef that was over 16 feet in length and weighed well…
The Best of 2022 – Mean Green Jolly Giant
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/12/29Dec22-Best-of-2022-Green-Giant.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Some people have a green thumb, and it certainly seemed the farmers in southern Minnesota were experts at growing peas. …
The Best of 2022 – Big Bend Museum
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/12/28Dec22-Best-of-2022-Big-Bend.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In a moment I’ll take you to a small room, about the size of a large walk-in closet, that’s insured…
The Best of 2022 – The Piggy Bank
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/12/27Dec22-Best-of-2022-Piggy-Bank.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Maybe you had a piggy bank as a child, or perhaps you still do. In a moment I’ll take you…
The Best of 2022 – Ray Starling
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/12/26Dec22-Best-of-2022-Ray-Starling.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was Ray’s first time in the Oval Office and he did not want to mess up his presentation. He…
Best of 2021: The Monopoly Patent
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/12/31Dec21-Best-of-2021-Macomb-Illinois-Monopoly.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Charles Darrow had a great new board game he sold to Parker Brothers – Monopoly. The only problem was, Charles…
Best of 2021: The Making of a Real-Life Superhero
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/12/30Dec21-Best-of-2021-Evel-Knievel-Museum.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There was no stunt he wouldn’t consider. And because of his daredevil nature, some have called him the first, real-life…
Best of 2021: The Worst Bombing Crew Becomes the Best
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/12/29Dec21-Best-of-2021-Boise-City-Bombing.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)They made a mistake worthy of a court martial. A bombing crew made a wrong turn and bombed their own…
Best of 2021: The US President & The Hitchhiker
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/12/28Dec21-Best-of-2021-Bob-Slater.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s a big deal to meet the president of the United States. Some people will do just about anything to…
Best of 2021: Building a Library You Can Fish From
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/12/27Dec21-Best-of-2021-Ben-Hur.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Some people fix up their office with pictures and knick knacks that remind them of their favorite things in life. …